Painting 4 Painting Begins

I started laying down the color on this one. These are so intricate that I usually don’t take the time to do value studies or anything, I just paint right over the line drawing. I do this mostly just to save time because these take so long to do. I go item by item sometimes only doing one a sitting. It’s really frustratingly slow sometimes, but I really enjoy these. The Mario mushroom was really a pain to draw and get right, I had to use a grid system to get the pixels right, but I love how it turned out. Really at that point I just had to get the colors right and stay in the lines. See a larger image after the jump.

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